CFP: Dialogue: Musical Voices (1/10/06; e-zine issue)

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Theme for Volume 2 Issue 1:Dialogue: Musical Voices

This theme features dialogue in all its colorful and musical forms. This isnot a stringent theme that blasts you with phonetic demands or clarionstipulations that stagnate the creative flow of words, shots, or paint.

Free and open like the vastness of the blue above. Write, design, snap,brush onto canvass what your creative mind decides in whispers into the leftor right ear saying what dialogue means to you in your deepestthoughts-tapping ever so gently onto your soul.

Deadline: January 10, 2006

Submissions accepted year round. Submit to any theme that interests you.Please specify theme or magazine issue number in email subject line.

Featured Artist/Writer positions available for most themes. All submissionswill be considered for the Featured positions. Some submissions will bechosen for publication-without compensation-that did not garner the featureddesignation.

Starting with Volume 2, Issue 1, Featured Poet, Featured Short FictionWriter, Featured Creative Non-Fiction Writer, and Featured Artist positionswill be available for each issue, including but not limited to:1. An extended biography of works and accomplishments.

2. A personal biography that may or may not include (writer or artistdiscretion) What inspired the writer or artist, who the featuredwriter/artist is; who are their favorite writers/artists; how they gotstarted; what they think makes a great writer/artist; helpful hints forother artists or writers that have worked for them (all optional).

3. Receives top billing on the cover and is delineated as the Feature Poet,Featured Short Fiction Writer, Featured Creative Non-Fiction Writer, orArtist on any pages referring to the issue featured in, contents pages, andbiographies.

4. Links to sites and magazines that the writer/artist has previouslypublished in (optional).

5. Links to purchasable work(s) the writer/artist has available.

6. Photo posted full size on a separate, full page biography.

7. And a $10.00 compensation for participating as a Feature Poet, FeaturedShort Fiction Writer, Featured Creative Non-Fiction Writer, or Artist(Payment can be made in the form of a cashier's check, Paypal, or moneyorder and will be mailed or deposited into your Paypal account by thedecision deadline of January 20, 2006). Submission suggested rules for all themes and E-Zine issues:

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*Multi media works are welcome.

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*Please include a 100 word or less biography with submission. Photographs ofartists and writers will be posted with biography if you choose to send onewith submissions.